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Among several acquisition technologies, ultrasound bears great potential in high secure access applications because it allows the acquisition of 3D information about the human body and is able to verify liveness of the sample. In this work, recognition performances of a multimodal system obtained by fusing palmprint and hand-geometry 3D features, which are extracted from the same collected volumetric image, are extensively evaluated. Several fusion techniques based on the weighted score sum rule and on a wide variety of possible combinations of palmprint and hand geometry scores are experimented with. Recognition performances of the various methods are evaluated and compared through verification and identification experiments carried out on a homemade database employed in previous works. Verification results demonstrated that the fusion, in most cases, produces a noticeable improvement compared to unimodal systems: an EER value of 0.06% is achieved in at least five cases against values of 1.18% and 0.63% obtained in the best case for unimodal palmprint and hand geometry, respectively. The analysis also revealed that the best fusion results do not include any combination between the best scores of unimodal characteristics. Identification experiments, carried out for the methods that provided the best verification results, consistently demonstrated an identification rate of 100%, against 98% and 91% obtained in the best case for unimodal palmprint and hand geometry, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23073653","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,31]],"date-time":"2023-03-31T08:27:27Z","timestamp":1680251247000},"page":"3653","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Recognition Performance Analysis of a Multimodal Biometric System Based on the Fusion of 3D Ultrasound Hand-Geometry and Palmprint"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6778-7659","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Monica","family":"Micucci","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1158-2558","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonio","family":"Iula","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Wang, Y., Shi, D., and Zhou, W. 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